Think About It

Why do you do what you do? How do you
know what you know? How do you do what you do? Think about it.

As much as you are busy and don't feel you have the time to stop and think, you should. Have time to soak it in. You can't control your time, but you can manage it. Every experience should teach something new, even if it strengthens the importance of a past lesson.

The role that blogging plays for me is sharing memorable experiences and my reflections. I influence the thoughts of other people positively so that they want to influence others. How about you? What does blogging mean to you and value to do share?

Welcome to the interwebs, and I hope I've made you think about thinking for at least a few seconds.

October152012

Today’s Focused Thought - Simplicity

Stop using words that you keep repeating over and over again.

Rid of the words that are redundant.

Omit needless words.

Cut verbosity.

If you can take a message and focus on simplification, you can capture the heart of the matter simply. When you begin to blur the main significance with wordiness and too much information you can cause confusion and loss of interest. Be concise and intentional. =)

Winston Churchill summed it up really well with his method:

Strong Beginning (a key fact)
Simple Language (down to earth talk)
One Theme (the central idea)
Pictures (metaphors and stories)
Emotional Ending (engage heart and cast action)

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April302012

“The most astounding facts is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth, the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them, went unstable in their later years. They collapsed and then exploded, scattering their enriched guts cross the galaxy. Guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas clouds that condense, collapse, form the next gen of solar systems: stars with orbiting planets. Those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky – and I know that we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up. Many people feel small because they’re small and the universe is big, but I feel big because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life. You want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant, you want to feel like you’re a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you. That’s precisely what we are just by being alive.
Neil DeGrasse Tyseon, Astrophysicist” Neil DeGrasse Tyseon, Astrophysicist

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